Equips the reader with the state of the art information required for accurate diagnosis of bone and joint diseases by combined use of scintigraphy and radiology

Includes many updates and covers more topics than the previous edition

Contains new chapters on the use of 18F-NaF PET/CT and diagnosis of bone trabecular microfracture and microcontusion

Introduction and fundamentals of pinhole scintigraphy.- Dual-head planar pinhole scan, pinhole SPECT, and gamma correction pinhole scan of the bone.- Clinical applications.- Normal pinhole scintigraphic anatomy of bones and joints.- Normal variants and artifacts.- Infective and inflammatory diseases of the bone.- Noninfective osteitides.- Diseases of joints and soft-tissue infections.- Degenerative joint diseases.- Rheumatoid arthritis.- Seronegative spondyloarthropathies.- Other rheumatic osteoarthropathies and soft-tissue rheumatism syndromes.- Osteochondroses and related diseases.- Vascular bone disorders.- Metabolic bone diseases and drug-induced osteoporosis.- Traumatic, surgical, and sports injuries of the skeleton.- Malignant tumors of the bone.- Benign tumors and tumorous conditions of the bone.- Soft-tissue tumors and tumor-like conditions.- Otorhinological disorders.- PET-CTin bone and joint diseases.- A genetic consideration of skeletal disorders.- Gamma correction pinhole bone scan diagnosis.- Trabecular Microfracture and Micro contusion.- Appendix: Basic physics of pinhole scintigraphy.